For some unknown reason, the instant Xi Renjie saw those hollow eyes, his heart sank.
"The...warehouse!" someone among the law enforcers shouted, and everyone's gaze simultaneously fell upon the depths of the warehouse behind the crimson-clad figure.
An extremely pungent, sour odor emanated from the warehouse. In that sea of flames, countless blackened centipedes curled up on the ground, their bodies broken and torn, with bite marks and limb fragments everywhere. It looked like a carefully arranged realm of demonic suffering.
Whether it was due to the visual impact or the assault of the pungent odor, several law enforcers felt their stomachs violently convulse, and they began to dry heave on the spot.
"Are they all dead??"
Xi Renjie looked at the disaster corpses scattered across the warehouse floor, his mind reeling. It had only been ten or so minutes since that person led these disasters away, and they were all wiped out?
And looking at those corpses, there seemed to be signs of being bitten and torn...
Xi Renjie's gaze fell once again on the figure draped in the bright red theatrical robe, his eyes filled with vigilance.
"Who...are you?" he asked in a low voice, staring at the crimson robe.
The figure did not speak, only silently walking forward like a shell without a soul.
Suddenly, a gentle breeze swept across the wilderness, and the bright red robe swayed with the wind. A crimson butterfly flew out from his sleeve, lightly fluttering past everyone's sight...Everyone froze in place.
This butterfly had no pattern on its body, nor did it have any of the organs or limbs that a butterfly should have. It was like a facsimile made of red paper, its wings flapping, crimson like blood.
Immediately after, the second, third, fourth...
As he lightly waved his sleeve, a dense swarm of butterflies emerged from under his robe, like a wave of fluttering butterflies, overwhelming Xi Renjie and the others!
Xi Renjie and the others were startled, instinctively raising their hands to block. Through the gaps between their fingers, they could see that the crimson robe was almost entirely decomposed into a sky full of red butterflies, completely obscuring their vision, with everything around them a deep crimson.
"Where did so many butterflies come from??" One law enforcer was blinded by the fluttering of the butterflies. In a panic, he pulled out the gun from his waist.
Bang bang bang——!
The sound of consecutive gunshots rang out, but they failed to disperse the butterflies in the slightest. At the same time, Xi Renjie's rebuke suddenly sounded:
"Idiot! Who told you to shoot??"
Although the crimson-clad figure was mysterious, he had saved Xi Renjie's life and lured away all the disasters from the third district. Even though Xi Renjie had doubts about his identity, this did not necessarily mean they were adversarial. This was also why, until now, Xi Renjie had not drawn his gun or gripped his sword in front of Chen Yifei.
But now this law enforcer had shot first. If that person took this as a signal to start a fight, it would be bad!
The law enforcer who had fired was stunned. Before he could recover, from among the crimson butterfly wings in front of him, a figure draped in a crimson robe quickly emerged, those hollow eyes staring at him, eerie and strange.
He was frightened by this scene, screamed, and instinctively wanted to raise his gun again. But as the crimson-clad figure waved his sleeve, the gun in his hand suddenly felt lighter...
When he fully lifted his hand, a fresh banana was tightly gripped in his palm, aimed at Chen Yifei's forehead.
A banana?
The law enforcer was dumbfounded. He stared blankly at what was in his hand, his brain momentarily crashing.
Before he could recover, the crimson sleeve fluttered again, and the red butterflies around him suddenly twisted, transforming into slender, thin snakes that climbed up his body like ropes, their black tongues lightly licking his cheeks, cold as ice!
This eerie transformation directly shattered the law enforcer's psychological defense. He screamed in terror, trying to break free from these snakes and escape, but no matter how hard he tried, these snakes were like they were growing on him, impossible to get rid of.
"Aaaaah!! Help me! Help me!!!"
At his cries for help, Xi Renjie gritted his teeth, drew a steel sword from behind, and rushed forward, slicing through the snakes on his body with one stroke.
The snakes broke apart at the sound, leaving the law enforcer's bare upper body...At this moment, both the law enforcer and Xi Renjie froze. They rubbed their eyes, unsure whether their clothes had turned into snakes or the snakes had turned into clothes...
Was it an illusion?
A ghostly crimson figure appeared behind Xi Renjie.
Xi Renjie felt his hairs stand on end, a chill rushing straight to the top of his skull. He swung his sword backwards without hesitation!
The sword tore through the air, emitting a sharp explosive sound. But as his vision blurred, that steel sword instantly turned into a burnt, blackened wooden stick, swinging towards Chen Yifei's head!
At this moment, Xi Renjie was startled, but with the experience of slicing through the snakes just now, he told himself in his heart that this was just an illusion, and what he held in his hand was still an indestructible steel sword...He gripped the bottom of the wooden stick and swung it with a whoosh!
Crack——!
The wooden stick broke apart.
Xi Renjie froze.
He held the charred half of the stick, a flicker of surprise in his eyes, because he saw that what Chen Yifei used to block his blow was precisely the steel sword he had been holding...Like the law enforcer, his brain momentarily crashed.
This isn't right?!
Those red butterflies and thin snakes earlier, shouldn't they all be illusions??
Just when Xi Renjie thought everything was real, reality became false, and when he deemed these things false, they became real again...For a moment, he couldn't distinguish what was real and what was false.
The only constant was the eerie and sinister smile on the face of the figure draped in the crimson robe before him.
The steel sword swung down with a whoosh, narrowly avoided by Xi Renjie. He gritted his teeth, pulled a gun from his chest, aimed at Chen Yifei, and closed his eyes to pull the trigger!
The gunshot did not sound.
His fingertips felt a smooth touch.
Xi Renjie opened his eyes blankly. He didn't know when the gun in his hand had turned into a banana...
"This can't be." Xi Renjie's mind was a blank, "This is clearly real...No...is it fake?"
At the same time, he saw Chen Yifei on the other side slowly raise a banana towards him...
Bang bang bang——!!
Three consecutive bullets hit Xi Renjie's body. Although they were all deflected by the black [Iron Clothes], at this moment, Xi Renjie felt like his brain was already dead...There was no way to win this.
He didn't understand the principle behind this absurd battle in front of him. In his mind, besides the endless crimson, there was only Chen Yifei's eerie face.
When false becomes true, true becomes false; when true becomes false, false becomes true.
It seemed as if everything was born from the waving of that theatrical robe...
Crimson Magic.